The Fallujah Confusion

Sullivan is concerned about the situation in Fallujah. Excerpts:

The U.S. is beginning to look both cruel and (a much bigger problem) weak. The huge propaganda victory handed to the enemy by the celebrations in Fallujah by Islamo-fascists shouldn't have happened.
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It is no longer unreasonable to surmise that the administration is preparing to hand over power to any U.N.-blessed Shiite or Baathist general it can find, while indicating to the wider terrorist enemy that we will buckle under to pressure. At a critical moment when Fallujah should have been the occasion for a critical wiping out of the terrorist and insurgent infrastructure, we seem to have blinked. The consequences for our future credibility, for the lives of coalition servicemembers, for the lives of Western civilians, could not be graver.

Sitting here in Los Angeles, it is next to impossible to know what the situation really is in Fallujah. But certainly it appears that Sullivan's concerns are legit. In WWII, both Germany's and Japan's military were decimated and the occupation forces held essentially absolute control over the countries. We stormed into Iraq last year and the Iraq military melted into the cities and countryside and so the situation remains very dangerous and the worst possible scenario is that we leave and the Baathist's retake the country.